The Global Arc of Justice: Sexual Orientation Around The World

My friend and executive director Brad Sears of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA Law School emailed me today to remind people that the early registration deadline for The Global Arc of Justice: Sexual Orientation Law Around The World, the conference they are putting on this year, is coming up on February 1. The list of speakers is long and distinguished. It includes at least two of MadProfessah's fellow bloggers, Andres Duque and Nan Hunter.

Justice Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni, Argentina Supreme Court

Justice Michael Donald Kirby, High Court of Australia

Presiding Justice Carol W. Hunstein, Supreme Court of Georgia

Justice Virgina L. Linder, Supreme Court of Oregon

Dr. Jorge Saavedra Lopez, General Director, Mexican Ministry of Health’s National Center for Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS

Judge Karen Atala, Chilean judge denied custody of her children by Chile's Supreme Court—case currently with the Organization of American States' Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Germán Rincón Perfetti, human rights lawyer in Colombia

Peter Ashman, Executive Director, INTERIGHTS

Boris Dittrich, Former Member of the Parliament, the Netherlands, Advocacy Director, LBGT Rights Program, Human Rights Watch

Tatiana Cordero, human rights lawyer in Ecuador, Executive Director of Corporation Promotion de la Mujer/Taller de Comunicacion de la Mujer

Sonia Corréa, coordinator of the Gender Initiative at the Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Analysis

Aeyal M. Gross, Professor of Law, Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law & Vice President, ILGLaw

Tamara Adrián Hernandez, Professor of Law, University of Caracas

Marcelo Ernesto Ferreyra, Coordinator del Programa para America Latina y el Caribe de la Comision Internacional de los Derechos Humanos para Gays y Lesbianas, IGLHRC

Mauro Cabral, Professor, National University of Cordoba

Marcela Romero, Regional Coordinator, Latin American and Carribean Network of Transgender People

Hari Phyual, human rights lawyer in Nepal, International Commission of Jurists

Richard Green, Professor, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine

Ali Miller, Lecturer in Residence, Senior Fellow, Thelton E. Hender Center for Social Justice, Boalt Hall

Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics, U. Mass.-Amherst, Research Director, The Williams Institute

Andrés Duque, creator of blabbeando.blogspot.com, Latino Commission on AIDS

Douglas Elliott, Partner, Roy Elliott O'Connor LLP

Gary J. Gates, Senior Research Fellow, The Williams Institute

Nan Hunter, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law, Legal Director, The Williams Institute and blogger at Hunter of Justice

Karon Monaghan, human rights lawyer in the United Kingdom

Andrew Park, Senior Philanthropic Advisor, Wellspring Advisors

Clifford J. Rosky, Associate Professor, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

Omar Banos, AIDS Project Los Angeles

David B. Cruz, Professor of Law, USC School of Law & President, ILGLaw

Paula Ettelbrick, Executive Director, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

Stefano Fabeni, Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Initiative of Global Rights

Helmut Graupner, human rights lawyer in Austria

John Heilman, West Hollywood City Councilmember

John Duran, West Hollywood City Councilmember

Holning Lau, Associate Professor of Law, Hofstra Law

Darren Rosenblum, Associate Professor of Law, Pace Law School

Lara Stemple, Director of Graduate Studies, UCLA School of Law

Monica Taher, Azteca America

Brad Sears, Executive Director, The Williams Institute

Douglas Sanders, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada, LL.M. Professor, Chulalongkorn University

Saúl Sarabia, Lecturer and Director of Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA School of Law

Kees Waaldijk, Faculty of Law, Leiden University

Robert Wintemute, Professor of Human Rights Law, Kings College

Evan Wolfson, Executive Director, Freedom to Marry

Russell Robinson, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Cheryl Harris, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Maximo Lager, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

MadProfessah intends to attend the conference March 11-14 and do some blogging coverage of the more interesting plenary sessions. The full schedule can be accessed here.